Wall mart Leaders

Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.
Joseph

"Joe McIntosh" wrote in
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Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing
trip with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found
Scientific Anglers 7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the
girl who stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them
down----would sure hate to loose a great big brown just because i
saved $2 on a leader. Joseph



Wal-Mart does that every year long about Feb. Clearancing out some fishing
stuff that didn't sell the year before. I pick up some of those leaders
every year. Last week I bought some for 50 cents...helluva bargain. They
proabably haven't degraded all that much being stored inside and out of
sunlight. At least I hope so.

Frank (the Impoverished) Church

Joe McIntosh wrote:
Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.

I'd buy a dozen, at least. Cut them back to the thicker part and use new
tippet.

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"Joe McIntosh" wrote:
Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing
trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific
Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the
girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them
down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.
Joseph

Nothing wrong with testing them.

Chas
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um...save the 2 bucks.

jeff (yer bookie...........just considering the odds g)

Joe McIntosh wrote:

Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.
Joseph

How often to you get the chance to tell people you broke off a 7 pound test
leader on a fish.....?

I have some fifteen pound test leaders circa 1940 if you want 'em.

Original packaging.

john

"Joe McIntosh" wrote in message
...
Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific
Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the girl
who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them down----would
sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.
Joseph

rw wrote:
Joe McIntosh wrote:

Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing
trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific
Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the
girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them
down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.


I'd buy a dozen, at least. Cut them back to the thicker part and use new
tippet.



How many leaders do you use in a year?

I tie my own bought the upper sections usually last about a season.

Willi

Joe McIntosh wrote:

Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.
Joseph



I think you'd be fine if you buy a heavy leader and add fresh tippet to
it. That way if the leader is old and weaker, it won't matter.

Willi

Willi wrote:

How many leaders do you use in a year?

I tie my own bought the upper sections usually last about a season.

For just trout fishing, I use maybe three or four leaders a season.
That's probably more than I need to use, but I cannot abide a kinked leader.

I tie them onto a mono butt section with a blood knot. I'll tie maybe
one nail knot, or use one leader link, per season, for ordinary trout
fishing.

Another contributing factor is that I sometimes change leaders according
to conditions, and I throw away the old one. If I'm fishing dries
somewhere like Silver Creek, I'll tie on a long leader -- up to 12 feet.
That would be a lousy leader for my day-to-day fishing in my homewaters,
where I typically just tie tippet onto a 7 1/2 foot leader. If I fished
those homewaters exclusively, I could get by with one leader per season.

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Joe McIntosh wrote:
Went thru wall today to stock up on groceries for next week's fishing trip
with my and grandson--walked thru fishing aisle and found Scientific Anglers
7&1/2 ft leaders priced at one dollar each!
Do leaders age out of use ? They were not overstocked and the girl who
stocks that aisle just said someone told her to mark them down----would sure
hate to loose a great big brown just because i saved $2 on a leader.

I'd buy a dozen, at least. Cut them back to the thicker part and use new
tippet.



I bought some leaders that were marked down to fifty cents at a discount
store a few years ago. When I tried to use them, I found I couldn't tie
a knot in them -- the mono was so fragile that it would break when I
tried to pull the knot tight.

On the plus side, if you want to call it that, at least I discovered
that and tossed them before I actually tried fishing with them.

Kevin